The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ALLAN ARTHUR, son of ex-President Arthur
is in Paris.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales will cele-
brate their silver wedding next year.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN is building house for
himself on the Lake drive, near Lincoln park
in Chicago.
ADVERTISING is to business" says Macaulay,
what steam is to machinery. the grand propel-
ling power"
PROFESSOR WINsLow UPTON, of Brown Uni
versity, and Mr.. f. E. Seagrave of Providence,
are going to Moscow to observe the total eclipse
of the sun on Aug 10.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX denies the report
that she intends to remove from Meriden,
Conn, to Wisconsin. Ella loves the golden
sunlight of the cultured East
THE important announcement is made that
Senator elect Blodgett, of New Jersey, has dis
carded dark necktes for dainty light scarfs, and
thus looks fully ten years younger.
SITTING BULL is living life of laziness at
Standing Rock agency. Work he considers
degrading and believes that his victory over Gus
ter has entitled him to existence of and
Incidence
In the garden of the old Mcclellan house, in
Gorham, Me-, the first brick building erected in
that county. lady recently found a venerable
looking gold ring. with this inscription still
legble on the inside: You the that 1
have chose"
THE proposition that Mr.. D. l.. Moody should
go to India was made more in jest than earnest
by the Rev. DR.. Arthur T. Person of Phia-
de)phia at Mortified the other day. But Mr..
Moody at took it into serious consideration,
whereupon Dr. Pierson said he would go. too. if
Mr.. Moody did.
THE health of the Empress Eugene has great
ly improved since her stay in Amsterdam. The
treatment of the Dutch doctors appears to suit
her constitution. Her bronchitis has been prac-
ticay cured, and the rheumatic pains from
which she has suffered for many years have
decreased considerably.
In the Joliet Ill, State prison a young man,
Rodney Burns, confined a charge of being
cessory to a murder, has been placed in the in
sane department on account of over-study. He
was taken to the prison quite ignorant, but he
took to studying. and IN time learned Greek,
Latin and one or two modern languages.
The death has been recorded Of William Faw-
cett, father of the late Professor Henry Fawcett.y
the blind Postmaster general of England. He
wassninety-four years old, the allied SOW
reigns in London after Waterloo. and shook
hands with Butcher. 1t was careless shot from
his gun, when out shooting birds, that blinded
his son for life.
A DENIAL comes to hand of the rumor that
Governor Lounsbery is known to the giver of
the 1925, 900 presented to Yale University re-
Dwight are declared to be the only persons who
have positive knowledge about it, and they
won't tell. There is arother story extant that
ex-President Porter is the man.
YAM PHoN LEE, the Americanized Chinaman,
and his wife are provoking more attention than
they desire at Narragansett Pier. Wherever
they 60 they eazed at by curious eyes.
Mrs. Lee is young woman with dark com
plexion, blue eyes. regular features and dark
brown hair. Mr. and Mrs. Lee were present re-
Gently at Casino hop, but did not indulge in
dancing
PHILLIP HENsEN, of Corinth, Miss, has prob
ably the longest beard of any male biped in the
world. Hensen is sixty years of age, six
feet two inches tall and when he stands erect
his beard touches the ground It has not been
cut for eleven years and is still growing. Hen
sen IS q Southerner by birth. but served the
Union cause during the war He furnished the
federal armies with invaluable information, and
won the high regard of many prominent Union
generals.
IN the Queens kitchen there is book keeper
to give orders to grocers, provision and other
dealers; four clerks to aid him in his work,
chief cook, four master cooks, two yeomen of
the kitchen, two assistant cooks, two roasting
cooks, four scourers three kitchen maids. a
store-keeper, two 'green office men, two steam
apparatus men. first and second yeomen of con-
fecrionery, an apprentice three female assist
ants, errand man, a pastry cook, two female
assistants. a baker and assistant aud three cof-
fee room women. There is an extensive wine
cellar superntended by man of large salary
partments suggestive of eating and drinking.
CoLoRED people apparently very popular
in England says Crawford in the New York
World. There does not seem to be any preiu-
dice against them account of their color
There are many colored people in London.
The few that have seen from time to time
invariably in the company of white people and
associating with them upon footing of perfect
equality. saw the other day, upon Regent
street, negro girl. black as coal, walking
along leaning upon the of fashionable
weldressed Englishman. who seemed perfectly
charmed and contented with his dusky COM
panion. In the way l have seen white
and dress, walking in public leaning upon the
arms of negroes.
Mr.. GEORGE FARRELL, stenographer. of
Providence has just accomplished the difficult
task of writing upward of $1,000 words on a
piece of paper the exact size of a postal card.
The specimen includes the Journals report of
the Burnside memorial ceremonies, including
formation of line, route of march, decorations
Grafton, addresses, ETC., the whole of which oc-
cuped about nine columns of the Journal The
specimen CT writing is perhaps the greatest Gu
rlosity of its kind, and written with
binary steel pen ordinary paper and with
the naked eve It is written in a very simple
style of the shorthand, known as the Isaac Pit
man phonograpy, and 1t would take ordinary
speaker three and a half hours to read equal
number of words to what this one piece OF paper
contains; or to make another comparison, it is
equal to four average Sunday sermons.
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